Subject: Re: Speed of linux emul?
To: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/17/1997 17:55:13
Quoting Jukka Marin,

> I just installed linux acrobat reader on my Cyrix P166+ / NetBSD 1.2 system
> and the screen updates feel kind of sluggish.  I have a 4 MB Virge VRAM
> gfx card and X is generally pretty fast.  Is anyone running AcroRead and
> feeling it's slow?

The chance that the Linux emulation is causing much of a slowdown is
very small. The emulation is just a wrapper around the system calls
once it's running. The layer is pretty thin.

- Frank